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As mobile phone manufacturers introduce their latest technological innovations, they also unveil the latest in features and services available on those devices. Features like click to call, multimedia downloads, custom ringback tones, IM, and more, have become standard features available from most carriers. Naturally, many of the latest features and services are extensions of those that are available on notebook and desktop PCs.

 

One of the main factors in enabling many of the new features available to mobile users is the advances in and adoption of IMS (IP Multimedia Subsystem) architectures by carriers worldwide. Cingular (News - Alert), in fact, recently deployed its IMS platform by Alcatel-Lucent, and is already taking advantage by adding yet another communications feature available to home and business users and adding it to its wireless service. Beginning later this year, Cingular customers will be able to make wireless video calls using their video capture-capable mobile devices.

 

Soon, moms and dads nationwide will no longer have to miss their children’s first steps, first baseball game, or other milestone events. With this new service from Cingular — the first mobile service of its kind in the United States — callers will be able to send a live video stream to a recipient during a standard voice call. While on a standard voice call, users can, by pushing a single button, add a live video stream to the call, so the call recipient is able to see what the camera on the first phone sees while continuing the conversation. All the called party is required to do is accept an invitation to initiate the video stream on his handset.

 

Customers will also be able to switch the direction of the video stream during the call.

 

Cingular will be demonstrating its newest service in Las Vegas at the Consumer Electronics Show. Visitors to AT&T’s (News - Alert) booth there will get a first hand glimpse into the true capabilities of a 3G network working with an IMS platform — a true outlook into the future of wireless services.

 

 

To learn more about the power of IMS and the implications it holds for carriers and their customers, be sure to attend IMS EXPO, collocated with INTERNET TELEPHONY Conference & EXPO EAST, January 23–26, 2007. IMS experts will be on hand to educate you and answer you questions to help you better understand how IMS can enhance your existing products and services.

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

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